Definition of drying

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Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..

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Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..
Drying :: Drying (a.) Having the quality of rapidly becoming dry.
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying..
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
Scrap :: Scrap (v. t.) The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat; as, pork scraps..
Exsiccant :: Exsiccant (a.) Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
Infumation :: Infumation (n.) Act of drying in smoke.
Drying :: Drying (a.) Adapted or tending to exhaust moisture; as, a drying wind or day; a drying room..
Harden :: Harden (v. i.) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying..
Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..
Curer :: Curer (n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc..
Drying :: Drying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dr.
Consolidate :: Consolidate (v. i.) To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying..
Siccation :: Siccation (n.) The act or process of drying.
Siccative :: Siccative (n.) That which promotes drying.
Parching :: Parching (a.) Scorching; burning; drying.
Desiccative :: Desiccative (a.) Drying; tending to dry.
Hack :: Hack (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc..
Arefaction :: Arefaction (n.) The act of drying, or the state of growing dry..
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